LANA: Folk Horror at Its Finest

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I absolutely love a good horror film based on centuries-old folklore and superstition!  When done right, the richness of myth and legends become tangible realities–gritty, more than merely imagined.  When done well, they bring to life the passion of ancestors before us… Continue reading

SHADOW PUPPETS

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Years ago, at a local Half Price bookstore, while looking through a vat of $2.00 DVDs (the ones they really want to get rid of), I happened upon a movie called Shadow Puppets.  From the title alone, I thought it… Continue reading

Behind the Masks: An Interview with Vicky Clerici

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Space Jockey Reviews Editor in Chief Chris Rennirt had the truly out-of-this-world opportunity to interview special effects artist and mask maker Vicky Clerici.  Vicky’s collection of latex monsters and slasher celebs are enough to wet the appetites of gorehounds and … Continue reading

THE LODGE

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Grace (Riley Keough) is the only survivor of a mass cult suicide she witnessed as a child, nearly twenty years earlier.  She has recovered from her trauma, only with medication, time, and protection from memories.  But, trouble is brewing again… Continue reading

Salient Minus Ten Premieres on YouTube!

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“SALIENT MINUS TEN–the new sci-fi/horror short film from award-winning filmmaker Emma Dark–is a cerebral foray into the darker, more disturbing side of science fiction.  Adam Harper (Alan Austen, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is an average … Continue reading

THE VOID

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Something terrible is happening.  A dead body lies in a hallway, a black triangle is painted on a door, and a woman screams.  Running from the house, she is shot.  Doused with gasoline, while still alive, begging for her life, the woman is set afire… Continue reading

Rabid Bites Again: The Crimson Contagion Continues

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Hailing all galaxies, again!  Jen & Sylvia Soska – The Twisted Twins – have released more sanguine stills from Rabid (2019)!  Space Jockey Reviews’ Mission Control, of course, has all the gory goodness ready for launch, asaap (as soon as… Continue reading

The Soska Suspension Continues

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Over a week ago, the Soska twins were suspended for posting the festival banner above (containing an image from their Rabid remake).  It is an image of the main character, whose face is shown badly injured from an automobile accident … Continue reading

The VelociPastor: A Man of the Claw

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Get your pickaxes poised!  A man of the cloth turns Jurassic in Wild Eye Releasing’s The VelociPastor, written and directed by Brendan Steere! What’s it all about?  After a devastating family tragedy, a priest travels to China to find deeper … Continue reading

Jen & Sylvia Soska Get Suspended from Twitter for Posting Images from Rabid Remake

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While Space Jockey Reviews planned to spread more bloody-good news about Rabid (2019), we now have some not-so-good news.  Recently, Twisted Twins Jen & Sylvia Soska were suspended from Twitter for simply posting images from their upcoming film.  Particularly, the … Continue reading

Rabid (2019): The Soska Twins’ Remake Is on the Way

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Space Jockey Reviews’ rockets are ready to launch for Rabid (2019) – the  latest bloody feature directed and cowritten by the horror-production duo Jen & Sylvia Soska of tWIStED tWIN,S PRODUCtIONS.  Yes!  The trailer for their much-anticipted remake of David Cronenberg’s … Continue reading

Thoughts and Theories I Had While Watching Stephen King’s IT (2017)

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With earplugs in hand, I went to watch Stephen King’s It (2017’s remake of the original 1990 cult classic – a fact that surprisingly a lot of people around me do not know!). I had been traumatized by the movie once when I was a child (not remembering much except for the creepy clown sneaking children into underground pipes)… Continue reading

Uninvited

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One of the most important elements any horror film can have is atmosphere–a dominant mood, emotional tone, or environment that surrounds and envelops us as viewers, making us feel that we are a part of it all as we watch.  … Continue reading

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

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I have used the word “visceral” to describe many horror films fully deserving the term’s meanings: “1. felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body, 2. of, relating to, or located on or among the body … Continue reading

Tony

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Tony (written and directed by Gerard Johnson) is a movie exactly about what it is sometimes subtitled–a “London Serial Killer”–ironically, far from the banality implied.  As the tagline says, “It’s always the quiet ones.”  Yes!  If ever there was a … Continue reading

Seize the Night

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A blurr of lights focus to a cityscape, a black-gloved hand slides across a metal railing, and a wanted poster features a sketch and photo of a dark-haired beauty.  Emerging from the night is the female of fatal pulchritude herself–a … Continue reading

Bethany

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I have never been abused.  Thank God and whoever else for that!  However, I have often wondered how my life might be different had I been so unfortunate.  I have wondered how horrors inflicted upon me by a monster (of … Continue reading

Hellraiser vs. Event Horizon: Liberate Tutamet Ex Inferis

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I have read articles and participated in discussions comparing Event Horizon (1997) to Hellraiser (1988) and vice versa, more than a few times.  The similarities are obvious, although some say it’s like comparing the proverbial apples and oranges.  Some say the fact that Hellraiser came first… Continue reading

VooDoo

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I’ve always liked that quote from Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy.  I’ve always wanted to use it as the prelude to a movie review.  However, previously, I hadn’t found just the right movie deserving of it’s message.  Finally, VooDoo is that movie. Continue reading

The Dark Tapes

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I always love a good found-footage horror film.  However, finding a good one is not so easy these days.  Since the first mainstream example in the genre–The Blair Witch Project in 1999–such a film with anything original and different to … Continue reading